Similar to my previous albums in this series (aside from the guitar instrumental album 4), volume 6 is true to its title: relevant, Christian, and song sketches. As stated in previous blog album announcements, my goal is to inspire contemporary Christian artists to write songs that are relevant. I am not a singer or an … Continue reading Announcing my next album release: Relevant Christian Song Sketches 6
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Strategy For My Fourth Album Release
This, my fourth album entitled Relevant Christian Song Sketches, is an instrumental—no lyrics; expect it on major streamers by August 2025. I keep the title from my previous three albums which were lyrics-driven, simply to draw listeners from this album to those. This album is for honoring and pleasing my wife. For decades she’s supported … Continue reading Strategy For My Fourth Album Release
Against Disparaging Your Musical Progress
Looking up from my piano, still playing at an early-intermediate level after a year of daily stabbing at it, I notice a picture on my Frameo. It shows me, sitting on the couch behind the piano bench I’m now sitting on, teaching my son, Micah, how to play the recorder. He was learning it for … Continue reading Against Disparaging Your Musical Progress
My third music album of “Relevant Christian Song Sketches” has been released!
On this podcast I explain the steps, methods, and tools I used for writing and recording my third “Relevant Christian Song Sketches” album. This YouTube video shows my recording setup. Here are a couple streaming platforms carrying my album: Apple Music Spotify Links to the audio tools I used: DistroKid (distributor) Reaper (digital audio workstation) … Continue reading My third music album of “Relevant Christian Song Sketches” has been released!
St. Larry Norman vs Big Eva Muzac
Motivating Start-Up Christian Bands to be Prophetic For the last thirty years, I’ve listened mainly to instrumental Classical and Jazz music; for the past twelve years, my worship music has been Gregorian Chant and the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Mass. My exposure to contemporary Praise and Worship music goes back to the first Maranatha! … Continue reading St. Larry Norman vs Big Eva Muzac
Facilitating Over Lecturing
Here's a post to my students, motivating them to use class time well. It's especially important that they do, in a setting where they're not seated in rows and passively listening to me lecture for two hours. Perhaps this will motivate other professors to experiment with the "guide-on-the-side" approach. Emphasizing facilitating over lecturing, I give … Continue reading Facilitating Over Lecturing
Fake Catholic Priests and Invalid Sacraments
Recently, a priest in Detroit discovered that he was baptized under incorrect wording: “We baptize you….”, instead of “I baptize you….”, thus invalidating his priesthood and all the sacraments he had performed. He was correctly baptized and re-ordained; as many as possible, under his ministry, were contacted to rectify things. As a Roman Catholic, I’m … Continue reading Fake Catholic Priests and Invalid Sacraments
Baptism as Normative–being neither strictly necessary nor sufficient
I write this post as a Catholic layman, not as a theologian. No doubt my speculation misses the mark, needing elaboration and correction. At least it’s useful, I hope, for prodding one to think deeper about the doctrine of baptism than what’s taught in a child’s catechism (as precious as that tool is for beginning … Continue reading Baptism as Normative–being neither strictly necessary nor sufficient
How I Teach
My Advice to New Community College Adjunct Instructors Dan Anderson, M.A., M.T.S., M.A. Having taught over eighteen years between nine colleges and universities, mostly in community colleges, I offer my humble advice for beginning community college adjunct instructors. Classical lecturing is like producing an audio book—staring at notes, with an occasional upward glance at the audience. … Continue reading How I Teach
Evangelical Christian Wokism
As a Roman Catholic, I've diligently stayed abreast of troubling trends and actors within the Church, hoping to warn other Catholics of the traps and snakes around us--ones they're typically unaware of. Evangelical family and friends, too, even the normally well informed and serious ones, I'm finding are unaware of the evil within their own … Continue reading Evangelical Christian Wokism
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